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100 1 _aAcheson, Edward Goodrich,
_d1856-1931.
245 0 0 _aEdward Goodrich Acheson papers,
_f1872-1968
_g(bulk 1899-1930).
300 _a13,000
_fitems.
300 _a48
_fcontainers plus
_a2
_foversize.
300 _a20.5
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 6 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1884-1931; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1889-1915; Series 3: Business Correspondence, 1910-1934; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1873-1968; Series 5: Miscellany, 1872-1956; and Series 6: Oversize.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, diaries, laboratory notebooks relating to his various experiments and inventions, biographical material, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Acheson's career as an electrochemist, engineer, and inventor as well as to his companies. Includes a typescript of his autobiography entitled A Pathfinder: Discovery, Invention and Industry (1910), two volumes of court proceedings concerning a case in which Acheson's Carborundum Company was involved in 1894, and research materials of his biographer, Raymond Szymanowitz. Correspondents include John P. Deringer, Thomas A. Edison, Alfred E. Hunt, John Seys Huyler, Andrew W. Mellon, E.L. Nichols, Walther Rathenau, William Acheson Smith, and Edmund C. Sprague; Acheson's sons, Edward Acheson (1887-1962), George Wilson Acheson, John Huyler Acheson, and Raymond Mahler Acheson; and organizations including Bakewell & Bakewell, Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, and the Electrochemical Society.
545 0 _aElectrochemist, engineer, and inventor.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057
600 1 0 _aAcheson, Edward Goodrich,
_d1887-1962
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAcheson, George Wilson,
_d1892-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAcheson, John Huyler,
_d1893-1938
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAcheson, Raymond Mahler,
_d1888-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDeringer, John P.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEdison, Thomas A.
_q(Thomas Alva),
_d1847-1931
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHunt, Alfred E.
_q(Alfred Ephraim),
_d1855-1899
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHuyler, John Seys,
_d1846-1910
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMellon, Andrew W.
_q(Andrew William),
_d1855-1937
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNichols, E. L.
_q(Edward Leamington),
_d1854-1937
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRathenau, Walther,
_d1867-1922
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSmith, William Acheson
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSprague, Edmund C.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSzymanowitz, Raymond,
_d1898-
610 2 0 _aBakewell & Bakewell
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aCarborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)
610 2 0 _aCowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aElectrochemical Society
_vCorrespondence.
650 0 _aChemistry.
650 0 _aElectrochemistry.
650 0 _aInventions.
656 7 _aElectrochemists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aEngineers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aInventors.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aAcheson, Edward Goodrich,
_d1856-1931.
_tA pathfinder: discovery, invention and industry; how the world came to have aquadag and oildag; also carborundum, artificial graphite and other valuable products of the electric furnace. The first of a series of educational biographical sketches of eminent inventors.
_f1910
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011057.3
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